WP,
We share the same hopes and dreams in life. We live the same lifestyle also. The open houses in LCV this weekend werent the best floorplans. I have original floorplans for every builder in my office. What you describe exists in a few neighborhoods there.
As for the schools, sure OPE has some snobbish folks but there are plenty of down to earth families there also. They used to have a real superiority cvomplex at that school because of test scores which were high because there is no multi-family housing in olivenhain which would tend to lower the average scores. With the building of LCV and LCO, Mission Estancia and ECC got the same favorable demographics and have been beating them since. With that said, OPE is a great school and some of my best friends have children there.
LCV has its share of stepford wives and some uppity folks but for the most part is pretty down to earth. Keep in mind that when built in 1999, many of these homes sold at or below $400,000. The community is still full of teachers, firefighters, forest rangers, small business owners, professional salesguys, engineers and regular old techies. The uppity folks tend to live in the higher end neighborhoods and/or are not original owners. There are still tons of orignal owners there with plans to stay until their rugrats graduate high school/college.
If you want, you can email me personal questions at [email protected]. Its a separate email I set up a while back for anonymous conversations. I dont check it often, so let me know you sent something here and I will be sure to respond.
